Sublime Happenings

This eclectic carnival of site-specific creations has been designed to introduce, explore, and awaken every corner of La Mama HQ, with work that both hails the new and invokes the spirit of all that has come before. Dress for the weather (most of the happenings are outside) and expect the unexpected!

The sky at dusk sitting on clouds. Patching the centre, a crop of the same image.

War-Rak / Banksia

The Rite of Rebirth

twoo people wearing glasses, looking at the camera and holding a buscuit each in their hands

War-Rak / Banksia

The Biscuit Readings

A public bathroom lock with both the “Vacant” and “Engaged” sign in green and red. The silver lock drips down into chrome blobs. The centre lock screw is diagonal to signal a half-locked door and represent the “/“ symbol.

War-Rak / Banksia

Dec 10 – Dec 11

a simple one-line description of the action in the image used for people who are blind or who use screen readers e.g. A woman in a blue dress plucks an apple from a tree, the wind blows her long dark brown hair.

War-Rak / Banksia

Exploring the Depths

Mid shot of adult men posing for the camera. One (behind) is eating a burrito. The other (in front) is holding a bundle of washing.

War-Rak / Banksia

Rudy and Cuthbert

Iconic Melbournian clock tower slightly leaning in the left half, complemented by five images in the right half – hands of guitar player, people in sleeping bags on footpath, people sitting in a Street Café, group of party goers, a Melbourne Tram

War-Rak / Banksia

The Streets of Melbourne

War-Rak / Banksia

To Know If You Are Here

Dec 10 – Dec 11

A human stomach with clear slime spread across it.

War-Rak / Banksia

There is no space between you and I.

a woman applies red lipstick, looking pensive towards a pocket mirror

War-Rak / Banksia

A woman in a red dress walks through a grove of banksia plants in a misty landscape.

War-Rak / Banksia

In My Father’s Garden

Close up underside of bronze musical bars with Gong in background.

War-Rak / Banksia

Gamelan Dan Anda

Overlapping nondescript bodily forms bathed in warm red light.

War-Rak / Banksia

Black and white image of a woman with brown hair smiling

War-Rak / Banksia

Rebirthing After Divorce

Letters spiral out of a robot’s head, the words ‘I crouch by a dragonfly resting on river mint)

War-Rak / Banksia

The Mud Goddess (Dewi Lumpur)

A bird/woman is within a cage with a wreath of orange flowers around her neck. She is wearing heavy make-up, a short, black leather dress and high, red, patent leather boots.

War-Rak / Banksia

Two women with white face paint and black stripes across their eyes on the stairs of La Mama in crazy white paper dresses

War-Rak / Banksia

A young man and woman loiter in an urban alleyway. She stands staring at the camera, and he is crouched against a wall further away from the camera. There is a large puddle in the foreground that reflects their images.

War-Rak / Banksia

Drive-by Paradise

A long roll of brown paper dances in the air near a rocky cliff. On the paper is written the word SUSTAIN.

War-Rak / Banksia

An illustration of a microphone and the theatre icon. It reads Blaxcellence HAHA night

War-Rak / Banksia

Blaxcellence: HAHA Night

Picture of La Mama after the fire with an image of a woman carrying an urn with ashes - Nemesis (The Great Fortune) 1501–2 Albrecht Dürer

War-Rak / Banksia

Four people walking past a fifth person leaning against a fence.

War-Rak / Banksia

Selection of Songs by MAN CITY SIRENS

Water colour paints in warm colours, red, pink and orange bleed together loosely depicting an abstracted human form embracing itself with its many limbs.

War-Rak / Banksia

Sublime Meltdown Blob

Woman in Hi-Vis leans out of a van.

War-Rak / Banksia

Three musicians (females in drag) play violin, accordion and double bass in 1970’s suits - a glamorous Countess sings behind them.

War-Rak / Banksia

Selection of Songs by Sofia Chapman

War-Rak / Banksia

A giant fly floating in space, plucks an unsuspecting man from earth.

War-Rak / Banksia

The Fly in the Ointment

The Contingent

War-Rak / Banksia

War-Rak / Banksia

Bukjeh’s (Stories of home… and of having to leave it)

War-Rak / Banksia